Irregular Verbs

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• bite

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• bitePresent Past Past

Participle

bite bit bitten

• freeze

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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30º Fahrenheit or

0º Celsius

• freezePresent Past Past

Participle

freeze froze frozen

30º Fahrenheit or

0º Celsius

• spread

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• spreadPresent Past Past

Participle

spread spread spread

• swing

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• swingPresent Past Past

Participle

swing swung swung

• tear

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• tearPresent Past Past

Participle

tear tore torn

• swear

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• swearPresent Past Past

Participle

swear swore sworn

• steal

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• stealPresent Past Past

Participle

steal stole stolen

• shrink

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• shrinkPresent Past Past

Participle

shrink shrank shrunk

• lose

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• losePresent Past Past

Participle

lose lost lost

The verb lose is not the same as:

• loose

• Loose is an adjective:

loose pants

tight pants

• mean

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• mean

Present Past Past Participle

mean meant meant

• shoot

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• shootPresent Past Past

Participle

shoot shot shot

• think

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• thinkPresent Past Past

Participle

think thought thought

• weep

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• weepPresent Past Past

Participle

weep wept wept

• awake

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• awakePresent Past Past

Participle

awake awoke awoken

• wake

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• wakePresent Past Past

Participle

wake woke woken

So, as you just saw on the previous slides, the irregular verbs

awake and wake are synonyms.

But awake is also an adjective which is the opposite of asleep.

So, as you just saw on the previous slides, the irregular verbs

awake and wake are synonyms.

But awake is also an adjective which is the opposite of asleep.

This girl is awake. However, this girl is asleep.

• flee

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• fleePresent Past Past

Participle

flee fled fled

• forget

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• forgetPresent Past Past Participle

forget forgot forgotten

• hang

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• hangPresent Past Past

Participle

hang hung hung

When you are talking aboutthe death sentence -

• The verb hang is a regular verb:

• The prisoner was hanged.

• seek

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• seek

Present Past Past Participle

seek sought sought

• shut

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• shutPresent Past Past

Participle

shut shut shut

• stink

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• stinkPresent Past Past

Participle

stink stank stunk

• weave

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• weavePresent Past Past

Participle

weave wove woven

• wind

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• windPresent Past Past

Participle

wind wound wound

• strike

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• strikePresent Past Past

Participle

strike struck struck

• withdraw

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• withdrawPresent Past Past Participle

withdraw withdrew withdrawn

• speed

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• speedPresent Past Past

Participle

speed sped sped

• deal

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• dealPresent Past Past

Participle

deal dealt dealt

• flyPresent Past Past

Participle

swims swam swum? ? ?Can you list these verb forms?

• flyPresent Past Past

Participle

fly flew flown

• burst

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• burstPresent Past Past

Participle

burst burst burst

• dig

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• digPresent Past Past

Participle

dig dug dug

• be

Can you list these verb forms?

Present Past Past Participle

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• bePresent Past Past

Participle

I amYou areThey areWe areHe isShe isIt is

I wasHe wasShe wasIt was

You wereThey wereWe were

been